Video captions, also known as same-language subtitles, benefit everyone who watches videos (children, adolescents, college students, and adults). More than 100 empirical studies document that captioning a video improves comprehension of, attention to, and memory for the video. Captions are particularly beneficial for persons watching videos in their non-native language, for children and adults ...

We study whether it is possible to infer from eye movements measured during reading what is relevant for the user in an information retrieval task. Inference is made using hidden Markov and discriminative hidden Markov models. The result of this feasibility study is that prediction of relevance is possible to a certain extent, and models benefit from taking into account the time series nature o...

This review paper contains a brief discussion of the composition, preparation and use of the various types of insecticide formulations and is presented as an aid to persons presently engaged in mosquito control. A glossary of common formulation has also been added for the benefit of those persons not familiar with the vocabulary.

BACKGROUND When health declines, older persons may benefit from an intervention program that strengthens their self-management and empowers them to keep in control of their own body and life. Therefore we conducted a Randomized Controlled Trial using the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) in a sample of 169 older persons in frail health and in need of elderly care. METHODS We ass...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The auditory profile of a large number of persons with late onset auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder (ANSD) is recently described in the Indian context. The purpose of study was 1) to profile data on routine audiological parameters, cortical evoked potentials, and temporal processing, 2) to analyze the benefit from hearing aids for persons with ANSD, and 3) to under...

INTRODUCTION In Denmark, a flex job scheme was introduced in 1998 in the expectation that more people could remain in the workforce despite a reduced working capacity. The aim of this study was to characterise the group that did not obtain a flex job after having been included in the flex job scheme. MATERIAL AND METHODS Persons included in the flex job scheme from 1 January 2001 to 30 March ...

An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. A new application area emerge for information retrieval and integration. There may be hundreds or thousands of web databases providing data of relevance to a particular domain on the web. So a primary challenge to internet-scale hidden web database integration is to determine in whic...

Contingent Valuation of Early Intervention Programs for Handicapped Children Colette M. Escobar, Master of Science Utah State University, 1986 Major Professor: Dr. John E. Keith Department: Economics vi Early intervention programs for handicapped preschool ch ildren may have l ong-term impli cations for the chi ldren and their families. Economic eva luations of these programs have been conducte...